seems the asps are alive and well in Egypt (two were female)

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/04/30/suspected_militants_strike_twice_in_cairo/

2 attacks in Egypt leave 3 dead, 9 hurt


Two veiled women shot at a tour bus, and a man -- the brother of one shooter and the fiance of the second -- blew himself up as he leapt off a bridge during a police chase Saturday. All three attackers died and nine people, four of them foreigners, were wounded in an apparent revival of violence against Egypt's vital tourism industry.

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Egyptian authorities deny major militant groups have returned to violence and said Saturday's attacks were a result of its crackdown on a small militant cell it says carried out an April 7 suicide bombing in a Cairo tourist bazaar that killed two French tourists and an American.

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The two women who carried out the shooting attack were identified as Negat Yassin, the bomber's sister, and Iman Ibrahim Khamis, his fiancee, both in their 20s. They carried out the shooting on the tourist bus in revenge for Yassin's death, then shot themselves, the ministry said. Women are not known to have carried out past attacks in Egypt.
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maybe they don't like their country being used to torture smirk's captives.

there are sections of Egypt that tourists are advised to go only with military escorts or not at all. Egypt has had problems in the past with Muslim extremists targeting tourists, which has really hurt their economy since it depends so much on tourism. When I was there in December 2002, security for tourists was really tight, but the people were very friendly to me, even knowing I was American.

I was surprised that these women were able to get so close to the Egyptian museum. It is surrounded by concrete barriers as well as tourist police & military.

dg

Just not local to where you are.

It may be that they killed themselves and murdered others because they don't like the way the French and the Americans--or, as they'd put it in their undoubtedly communalistic mindset, the Crusaders--have sent good Muslims to be tortured.

Probably not. Yassin, of course, was unjustly killed--by himself--since any struggle against a real jihadi is unjust on the face of it. Especially when the jihadi died protecting unprotected infidels; that would render the government unworthy. Submission is required all around, and we have to get our definitions straight.

Sigh.